How to optimize a blog?

**james9888** · 05-16-2011, 12:27 PM

Hi...what are the ways to optimize a blog and to increase the traffic of it?

**kevinjeffersons** · 05-18-2011, 01:48 AM

Update your blog content by posting quality articles, Share it on social networking sites and also social bookmarking sites..

**amendazn** · 06-13-2011, 10:00 PM

Tips to optimize a blog

Do keyword research
Main keyword in your post title
Link out to other websites
Content formatting
Use related posts
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**DRK** · 06-18-2011, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by sjohnson

Same way you do any other site. If you are using worpress you can use all in 1 seo. That is a great free plugin to help make sure that you are getting everything out of your pages for SEO.

All in one seo is a great plugin. You can go a step further by getting a paid plugin like seopressor or clickbump which will show you which aspects of your page are lacking.

As far as SEO goes, there's a lot of free information out there. Problem is many people don't know what they're talking about or are using antiquated information.

Look in the SEO section of this forum. I just gave a very basic example of on page SEO in one of the threads. Blogs are no different than websites except that typically the home page has the updated articles posted on it. You still should be SEOing each page you create targeting the keywords you are interested in ranking for.

**sandrah** · 06-20-2011, 12:39 AM

You optimize the blog in the same way as a site. Start with a good content for the blog.

**IfrahimM** · 06-25-2011, 08:40 AM

1. Identify Keywords which you want to get more traffic - As some other members advised earlier on this thread,

2. Make sure those keywords are there in the title of your blog post's title, category, keywords and etc....

3. Get links for your each blog post via target set of keywords

4. Get links to your home page via target set of keywords - Do it regularly

This would give you traffic via search engines as well as off referral traffic too,

**mikesmith** · 06-26-2011, 12:39 AM

It is a very detailed question which take so many things under its circle and i don't feel like writing that much at least not today but few important points that might help you are:

1. Update Unique content on regular basis
2. Respond to people
3. Customization of Blog
4. Social Media buttons
5. Plugin installation